“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
More from John Keats on Art
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever Its loveliness increases it will never Pass into nothingness.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.”
“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
Beethoven
8 quotes“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peop...”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
Steven Pressfield
7 quotes“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”
John Ruskin
7 quotes“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful...”
Frank Lloyd Wright
7 quotes“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Marshall McLuhan
7 quotes“Art is anything you can get away with.”